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Highly Specialist Clinical / Forensic Psychologist
Band 8a
Main area: Highly Specialist Clinical / Forensic Psychologist
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week
Job ref: 222-HSS-BM-217
Site: Broadmoor Hospital
Town: Crowthorne
Salary: £59,490 - £66,239 Per Annum Pro Rata Inclusive of Allowances
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 24/02/2025
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
We are looking for a highly motivated and inspirational Practitioner Psychologist for the role of Team Psychologist and Highly Specialist Clinical/Counselling/Forensic Psychologist at Broadmoor Hospital, in our High Secure Services in West London NHS Trust. This role will involve working alongside other clinicians to provide psychologically informed care and to deliver high quality evidence-based psychological interventions in the high secure setting.
Main duties of the job
This role champions excellence in the delivery of psychology and psychological therapies within the high secure setting, leading within the clinical team on psychologically informed practice, professional supervision of psychological interventions, and standards of professional behaviour for junior contributors to the psychological professions within Broadmoor Hospital.
The post-holder will be in a position to contribute to audit, research and training programmes that will implement standards and policy in order to ensure high quality psychological practice. They will work alongside and involve Experts by Experience in initiatives of clinical benefit to the service, care and treatment of all those referred to Broadmoor Hospital.
The Team Psychologist role carries responsibility for the psychological care and treatment for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams, adjusting and refining psychological formulations to draw upon different explanatory models to assist those on Intensive Support and Assertive Treatment (ISAT) wards.
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Good honours degree (2:1 minimum) in Psychology. Eligibility for graduate membership of BPS
* Post-graduate doctorate in clinical psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996 or those in lateral transfer); or forensic psychology equivalent, as accredited by the BPS.
* Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
* Other related academic qualifications
Experience
* Experience of at least 6 months work in either a severe and enduring mental disorder or a forensic setting either in a training placement or as an Assistant Psychologist or an Health Care Facilitator or equivalent
* Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
* Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts
Knowledge
* Highly developed specialist knowledge, both theoretical and practical, of psychology applied to clinical practice, particularly in respect of adults with severe and enduring mental health disorders (including psychosis and personality disorders)
* Able to provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance which need to be overcome using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills.
* Able to make judgements involving complex facts or situations, which require the evaluation of a range of options.
* Able to plan, prioritise and organise own patient caseload, treatment programmes involving other staff, and other aspects of the work such as research activity.
* Able to complete PMVA training.
* Able to use database, word processing and test administration/scoring software.
* Post-graduate level knowledge of research design and methodology.
* Specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of psychology applied to forensic issues.
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and its implications for work with mentally disordered offenders.
* Knowledge of SPSS.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
Skills
* Able to function in potentially traumatic circumstances and in highly emotionally distressing circumstances on a frequent basis.
* Able to provide services in a secure environment with patients who are disturbed and sometimes violent.
* Able to “hold” the stress of patients compulsorily detained in a secure hospital.
* Able to respond adaptably to rapidly changing service demands.
* Experience of working within a multicultural framework.
* Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.
* Record of having published in either peer reviewed or academic or professional journals and/or books.
Other Requirements
* Knowledge of the professional code of conduct of the BPS.
* Must be capable of being guided by precedent, clearly defined policies, procedures and codes of conduct.
* Able to reflect on own professional practice through the clinical supervision process.
* Willing to participate actively in CPD in line with BPS guidelines.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate.
As an employee of West London NHS Trust, you have a responsibility to maintain a sound understanding of, and a commitment to uphold the National Health Service values and principles set out in the NHS Constitution.
We reserve the right to close adverts prior to the closing date stated should we receive a high volume of applications.
By applying for this post you are agreeing to West London NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system.
West London NHS Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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